How we did the analysis: First, we isolated the law schools with the best at-graduation placement records of 2011 and ranked them in order of the percentage of JDs with full-time jobs requiring Bar passage. Then, we looked at the latest 2012 placement stats at the business schools on the same campuses.
The first two numbers in the table are for grads with jobs at graduation. The second two numbers reflect jobs nine months later at law schools and jobs three months later at business schools.
JDs vs. MBAs: How Law Schools Compares Against B-Schools in Employment
| School | Law | Business | Law | Business |
| 1. University of Virginia | 97.3% | 81.5% | 96.0% | 90.9% |
| 2. Stanford University | 93.2% | 71.3% | 95.8% | 87.8% |
| 2. Columbia University | 93.2% | 77.0% | 95.4% | 91.6% |
| 4. Harvard University | 90.9% | 77.4% | 93.7% | 89.3% |
| 5. Yale University | 90.7% | 66.5% | 91.2% | 85.5% |
| 6. University of Chicago | 90.6% | 84.1% | 95.1% | 92.3% |
| 7. University of Penn | 83.6% | 79.7% | 91.2% | 91.7% |
| 8. George Washington Univ. | 81.7% | 55.7% | 88.0% | 85.2% |
| 9. Northwestern University | 77.4% | 76.9% | 84.7% | 91.7% |
| 10. Duke University | 72.9% | 86.5% | 87.4% | 91.7% |
| 11. UC-Berkeley | 72.6% | 74.4% | 82.6% | 92.7% |
| 12. University of Michigan | 70.7% | 74.3% | 85.8% | 81.4% |
| 13. Cornell University | 69.7% | 82.0% | 76.1% | 89.6% |
| 14. University of Alabama | 66.5% | 77.3% | 87.8% | 90.7% |
| 15. Vanderbilt University | 65.2% | 71.1% | 76.3% | 87.2% |
| 16. Georgia State University | 64.5% | NA | 77.4% | NA |
| 17.. University of Minnesota | 64.0% | 83.6% | 66.3% | 90.9% |
| 18.. Georgetown University | 63.7% | 67.9% | 71.1% | 88.8% |
| 19. Indiana University | 62.1% | 76.1% | 73.3% | 89.4% |
| 20. University of Texas-Austin | 62.0% | 80.7% | 76.7% | 92.5% |
| 21. University of Houston | 58.0% | 55.3% | 75.8% | 76.6% |
| 22. University of Maryland | 57.6% | 58.5% | 62.3% | 88.1% |
| 23. University of Louisville | 57.5% | NA | 86.6% | NA |
| 24. University of Georgia | 56.8% | 65.8% | 66.5% | 86.8% |
| 25. Rutgers (data for Camden law) | 55.0% | 60.0% | 65.3% | 93.3% |
Source: Law & business schools reporting to U.S. News & World Report
